Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-04-23
CANCER CAN BE CURED.

Generations Serve in Every Case TO
ProIons Life-lnterestfug statis-
tics.
The question whether or not cancer
is durable BY operation is enc OF vial
importance to those who may have the
disease. 1t is popularity supposed to be
incurable, but stat sites prove that It
Is not so. In estimating the value OF
operations for cancer we must consult
er the durat on OF the sease when LETT
10 itself Paget. in 1879 cases, gives tue
duration of life in 20 not operated upon
as forty-eight months. VIII lie IN Tie re-
manning "a. where one Or m IRE opera
tons had been performed, the NE aver
ace was tifty-twO months. S.bley. n
eivbty-four eases, makes the average
thirtv-two months in cases not operated
upon, and fifty, two months where eX-
cision was practiced. The longest du-
ration of fe in eases not operated up
on is twelve years; in those operated
upon eighteen wears. VIII lie these sta
tistics 90 to prove that oDeratiOn pro-
longs life, they do not prove an ulti-
e.
report that out of 229 eases where oper-
ations had been performed . recover
ell. DIR. Willard Parker believed in
operations for the disease. In II paper
read before The Ned ca Journal asSo-
citation in September, 1873, he reports
fourteen cases of cure by excs sion, the
patients be ne in good health al the end
of periods vary ne from three TO TWEEN
ty-seven years.
A mass of statistics might be brought
TO show that many instances cancer
has been radically cured, and in other
cases Life has been indefinitely prolong-
ed by the use of the knife. 4 few
snecal cases will serve to show this.
DIR. Weir reports case IN which the
right breast was amputatea by DIR. James
r. Wood in 1856 In 1867 DIR. Post
amputatcd the left brsast. In 1873 DIR.
Weir removed recurrent growth from
the right side, and again in 1871 ami
$780, the patient hnaily ding OF the
disease TWENTY-FIVE years after its first
appearance. DR.. Frank Ii. Hamilton
operated upon a patient who survived
the exc sion twenty years, and all
other patient OF his. whose breast WAS
entirely removed, survived tie opera
| ton for ten years. Cases of this des-
cription might be multiplied. DIR.
ShrLdr. Gen. Grants physician. claims
| that the disease is organic, and in nc
wav hereditary. He bel ewes that its
| origin is local. and is therefore remor-
| able. and that the constitution becomes
affected only secondiriy by n more or
less widespread disseminat on of Orgi-
nal cancer germs. The fl lure OF one
excison to effect 4 cure in no Sc 8.
concerts m. The disease is ins dous,
and a careful microscope examination
is necessary 10 follow its various rami-
tications. VIII re the growth is not in
prox nifty to the vital organs operation
after operat on may be tried with I'M
punitv. In the case of Gen. Grant. the
entire throat was affected and an opera
ton meant certain death, otherwise an
operation would have been tr ed. 1t S
an exception for more than one mem.
Der of family to become the within OF
cancer. In fact. il may be confidently
said that no human be NJ can b5 sIre
of escaping the disease until he has
passed the are of IS &C :urence, which
is when h ta! machinery is entirely
worn out. In other words he can new
err be cons d red fortunate ia resp ,ct 10
cancer until he 5 dea1.-NeW York
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